Many famous psychology case studies have been debunked. In this article, I will outline those that have withstood the test of time and those that have not. Here are the case studies:
- Phineas Gage – Physician John Martyn Harlow
- Anna O. – Breuer & Freud (1895)
- Cleckley‘s (1941) case studies of psychopathy (The Mask of Sanity) and multiple personality disorder (The Three Faces of Eve) (1957)
- Little Hans – Freud
- Rat Man – Freud
- John/Joan case – John Money
- Genie (feral child)
- Piaget’s studies
- Rosenthal’s book on the murder of Kitty Genovese The Bystander Effect – (Debunked)
- Rosenhan’s experiment – David Rosenhan – (Debunked)
- Washoe (sign language)
- Patient H.M.
- Lev Zasetsky – A.R. Luria
- Solomon Shereshevsky – A.R. Luria
- When Prophecy Fails[3] – by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter
- The Marshmallow Experiment – Walter Mischel
- Jill Price – Elizabeth Parker; Larry Cahill; and James McGaugh.
- Halo Effect Experiment – Edward Thorndike 1977
- Bobo Doll Experiment, 1961, 1963
- The Asch Conformity Study, 1951 – Solomon Asch
- Milgram experiment, 1963 – Stanley Milgram
- Stanford Prison Experiment, 1971- Philip Zimbardo – (Debunked)
- The Learned Helplessness Experiment, 1965 – Martin Seligman
- The Little Albert experiment, 1920 – John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner Johns
- Anna O – Freud
- Czech Twins – Koluchova